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A gay couple invites their somewhat-homophobic families to meet for the first time during Christmastime, and they have a special gift for them.A gay couple invites their somewhat-homophobic families to meet for the first time during Christmastime, and they have a special gift for them.A gay couple invites their somewhat-homophobic families to meet for the first time during Christmastime, and they have a special gift for them.
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This movie is absolutely horrendous. From a critic point of view I'd say the movie belongs between an IMDb rating of 4 - 5, but the fact that it has such a rating as 6.3(as I'm writing this), I felt the need to over exaggerate on my score in order to lower its overall rating, because this really isn't a movie that you'd want to stumble across by accident.
To start it all of, I would say the major flaw of this movie comes down to its script and story development.
It's said to be a comedy, although that's among what it lacks the most. Overall it doesn't bring anything new or interesting, and on top of that, it has some serious "cringy"(as the teens call it) moments, in fact all to many. Its so called "humor" for the most part consists of someone making a clumsy entrance, saying something awkward about someone while they're sitting next to him or her, or just making it as simple as strictly riping off ideas that has worked in the past from other better movies. Before I watched it I had my expectations set to a standard B-movie, unfortunately for me that wasn't the case. There were multiple occasions where the movie just tried so hard to make it funny, that you couldn't but smile at how they thought people would laugh at someone stumble over an object and crashing a lamp. In other words I wouldn't recommend this movie, it has its clutch moments and occasionally good scenes, but simply doesn't make it to be even a B-tier movie.
To summarise briefly I'll give some key-words; Cringe, forced, uninteresting, abysmal.
To start it all of, I would say the major flaw of this movie comes down to its script and story development.
It's said to be a comedy, although that's among what it lacks the most. Overall it doesn't bring anything new or interesting, and on top of that, it has some serious "cringy"(as the teens call it) moments, in fact all to many. Its so called "humor" for the most part consists of someone making a clumsy entrance, saying something awkward about someone while they're sitting next to him or her, or just making it as simple as strictly riping off ideas that has worked in the past from other better movies. Before I watched it I had my expectations set to a standard B-movie, unfortunately for me that wasn't the case. There were multiple occasions where the movie just tried so hard to make it funny, that you couldn't but smile at how they thought people would laugh at someone stumble over an object and crashing a lamp. In other words I wouldn't recommend this movie, it has its clutch moments and occasionally good scenes, but simply doesn't make it to be even a B-tier movie.
To summarise briefly I'll give some key-words; Cringe, forced, uninteresting, abysmal.
- edwardblomster
- Jan 22, 2016
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- Gross worldwide
- $8,172,351
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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